Emacs/emacs/Dired-Visiting
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30.5 Visiting Files in Dired
There are several Dired commands for visiting or examining the files listed in the Dired buffer. All of them apply to the current line’s file; if that file is really a directory, these commands invoke Dired on that subdirectory (making a separate Dired buffer).
- f
Visit the file described on the current line, like typing C-x C-f and supplying that file name (
dired-find-file). See Visiting.- RET
e Equivalent to f.
- o
Like f, but uses another window to display the file’s buffer (
dired-find-file-other-window). The Dired buffer remains visible in the first window. This is like using C-x 4 C-f to visit the file. See Windows.- C-o
Visit the file described on the current line, and display the buffer in another window, but do not select that window (
dired-display-file).- mouse-1
mouse-2 Visit the file whose name you clicked on (
dired-mouse-find-file-other-window). This uses another window to display the file, like the o command.- v
View the file described on the current line, with View mode (
dired-view-file). View mode provides convenient commands to navigate the buffer but forbids changing it; See View Mode.- ^
Visit the parent directory of the current directory (
dired-up-directory). This is equivalent to moving to the line for..and typing f there.
